Paste

Moving Text

You can use the Delete Word and Paste commands to move a word or sentence to another position in any document.

  1. Position the caret just before the first character of the first word you want to move.
  2. Give the Delete Word command:
Menu Command Cmd-sequence Key
Edit Delete word T F10
Menu Command Tool Key Cmd-sequence
Edit Paste F9 I

You can use the Delete Block and Paste commands to move a block of text from one part of the document to another or from one document to another.

  1. Mark the block of text you want to move.
  2. Give the Delete Block command:
Menu Command Tool Key Cmd-sequence
Edit Delete block BD

You can delete several blocks of text and paste them back in at different points in one or more documents. The number of blocks you can move in this way depends on the Paste Depth you have set in the Choices sub-menu. The default setting is 10 and you can change this to any figure between 0 and 255. The blocks will be pasted in in reverse order to that in which they were deleted.

The Paste command can be used to recover or move text deleted with the following commands:

With Delete to End of Cell, if the cell deleted is a number cell, when it is recovered using the Paste command, the formula it contained will be pasted in as text. Give the Edit Formula command to make it into a number again.

Note that PipeDream will insert new rows to paste blocks into, but not new columns.

If, for example, you want to move column C to column A, first delete column C, then use the Insert Column command (Cmd-EIC) to insert a new column A. Now position the caret in cell A1 and give the Paste command.